Pippi in Spring and Off to Oz

 Please meet Pippi and Mr. Nelson.They are pretty much the reason why my end of the wire has been rather silent...so sorry, dear friends! The long winter days have been spent in sewing, felting, beading, painting, and dyeing fabrics with lots of help from my girls for Miss Pippi!Now she is ready to welcome springwith great Anticipationof New Adventures awaiting!
  (almost 11 inches)  Here are some of her details... Her long thin legs were almost too cute to cover with Longstockings!But, because she is Pippi, she insisted on mismatched stripey stockings.      Pretty green underpinings to keep her warm in her new Swiss home....yarn ties were temporary... 
  Often while I was busy with the children, Pippi helped out  cleaning up after the endless piles of messes made in the Doll Roomand elsewhere in the house. So, I fashioned a tidy little Lace Apron for her to wear as a heartfelt  *thank you*.     And she asked for a sturdy Pink Paintbrush Broom to clear out cobwebs.      My daughter and I nunofelted a lace Day Dress with fine, soft woolsdotted with a variety of tulle and lace fragments.  
 
The underside of the dress was painted and glittered for Pippi's planned trip to Oz.  Because she likes to travel light, we figured this was the best wayto send along a Party Dress for Emerald City.She wishes to meet Queen Ozma,and I have no doubt that she will do exactly that!   Her seafaring father sent a bag of jewels to help with the trip,and here they are encircling her (attached) Slippers.  
 This is an Essentials Bag sewn according to her precise specifications.  Nelson can comfortably fit inside, if necessary. 
  I think he is scared of the flying monkeys in Oz.  
  Since this Pippi is a faerie, she has wings...and they can surely outfly monkey wings any day of the week.        So, Nelson has decided to go along to Oz afterall.



  
(4 inches tall, not including his tail)

Mr. Nelson is fully poseable and wears the tiniest of handmade buttons, a bendable furry tail, and an embroidered beanie.  
     He can stand on his own, but prefers sitting on Pippi's arm.  He says the view is better from up there.  
   After their Saturday photo session yesterday, I found both of them standing at the kitchen window this morning waiting for me to put the coffee waterkettle on to boil..With a sentimental yet excited glint in Miss Pippi's eye,she was waving goodbye to me.Packed and ready to go to Oz by way of Switzerland...   

 Farewell, my little friends.I wish we could come along too.You were a work of love and will be greatly missed......Rose